Everyone is for Globalization
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Trusted Clothes (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016
Everyone is for globalization. It depends on what you mean by globalization. It can mean the grassroots form through which people gathered together in communities and cooperatives to form networks from the bottom up.
Or, it can mean the networking and structural integration of large-scale companies across the globe from the top down. In either case, people like the idea of globalization because it is the wave of the future and it is continuing at an increasing pace.
It will unlikely be stopped outside of some catastrophe. That means that we need to get our house in order to prepare for a global economy, which we have to a large extent. At the present time, ethical and sustainable fashion can be an moderate and integral part of this.
It is something that needs to be expanded upon and explored. Since it is such a new large-scale phenomenon, we need to take to account that there are avenues that will not work and other avenues that will work to varying degrees.
The vast amount of networking that needs to be done is the place where exchange of common values can breed exchange of common knowledge. The exchange of knowledge can let us know what works and what doesn’t work with respect to globalization.
For the bottom up, that means from the artisans and the producers in small to moderate sized businesses. I see nothing wrong with this. It’s good. Anyway, I remain a bit on the fence because I see the need for a pragmatic approach with respect to the inter-linkages of small to moderate size companies and even some large-scale corporations.
Because the infrastructure is so deeply embedded that it would seem nearly impossible to simply remove it, but it can be shifted. And I love hearing about the stories of individual makers, artisans, and ethical and sustainable fashion company owners.
These are the people that are forming the basis for a movement and a new form of consumption. Forms of consumption that are consonant with the sustainability goals of the United Nations. It’s an exciting time. And globalization is an inevitable and unavoidable consequence of this form of productivity and economy.
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